Our Press Archives In Digital Environment

2015.02.24

Istanbul Metropolistan Municipality Department of Culture and Social Affairs, Directorate of Museums and Libraries has realized digitalization of Ottoman Era’s Peridocials (Code of YEN 89). That project has won the gift under programme financial support of İSTKA (Istanbul Development Agency)

The collections of between the years of 1828-1928 periodicals (Newspapers and Magazines) will be cataloged with high resolution scanners and a great Ottoman’s Era Press Archive database will be created. All kind of users or researchers can access to that database through our library’s web automation.

Targets of our projects are protecting cultural heritage, spreading knowledges and scientific contribution to Istanbul. Thus Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality will provide service of knowledges to domestic and foreign researchers.